The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-10-22
GATH INTERVIEWED.

date, published the following inter- view with George Alfred Townsend (Gath), whose work is SO well known throughout ahe country. MT. Town send is shrewd and merciless oh server. His remarks relative to the condition of affairs in Europe naay not be official" but they are no doubt we'll founded:
 Mr. Townsend is man of some forty-seven years of age. Ills com plexion is fair, his eyes arc of cokl blue color, and are surmounted by heavy eyebrows, which. when nc looks at you, seem to bend over them. He has a trim brown mustache, which covers thin pair of lips His hair Ia brown, and there seems to be plenty of it, for il Is brushed we'll from the forehead, and on the left side oi his face 1t stands up like wall. Mir. Townsend is a peculiar talken He Is decidedly not picturesque In his lan- guage, but rather hurls his ideas at you. He is full of information, and prof0sion. In his conversation he Is encyclopedical, and 1t seems that there can be no subject on which hs could not give most satisfactory lecture.
 "Yes, am jus. back from Enrope," he said, when he reached his room, and had taken chair. "l have come here for rest. My country house Is being mtitted and additional wings are being added, so l thought it a l erArA Atuxa f.N t., Al know have not been here since 1871, i, and have been so pressed with work that at times thought would never bc able to get out here. l l left for Europe on Jaly , last, and left Europe again on August 20. l got only AS far as Paris. This has been my sixth trip to Europe, 80 l do not regard it as any thing strange my short stay here.
 October-I mean my newspaper work I have some books in hand. I have a historical novel under way. But the truth is that novels do not pay, and, therefore, write them in my leisure moments. My newspaper work keeps me pretty busy. For the Enquirer alone l have to turn out two columns n day"
 "When did you first begin writ ing?"
 Well, have been publishing since was sixteen years of age. was in school then and wrote for my school paper. When l graduated from the high school l was offered an appoint ment on the New York press, which I accepted. When the war broke out l became correspondent, and at it's con clusion l lectured."
 Do you intend writing about Cali fornia while you arc out here?"
 al am always writing more or less, but have not come out with that end in view. l shall be here only , some ten days, or so, and intend to de- } vote most of my time to looking about me"
 , w hat do you think of the Eu- ropean situation?"
 "l never saw such i'll will in Flu l rope before," answered Mir. Town 5 send "there Is no war scare, but there 5 is general apprehension all over Flu . rope that war must break out sooner or later between France and Ger , many. Europe is 30 compact that the loss of little territory there Is deeply : felt. Now there Is large class of f Frenchmen who would like to avert the war. 1 think" said Mir. Town , send, "that the plotting out of France as nation would be the greatest loss that Europe could suffer. They have , all the politeness and the art that Is there and when you take that out of Europe, what is left? They are the only congcnial people there, and vastly different to the apathetic German, the artificial and hypOcritical English" l"
 "Why artiAe!a! Ens!ishinen?"
 "Oh, country which makes Its queen a god, is artificial and hypo- critical. There Is more hypocrisy to the square inch in England than there is in any other country in the world. 1 would rather live in the woods than in Europe. They look upon us as the most favored nation in the world. What satisfaction can there be in liv- ing in a country which starves its people to build 8 navy, which it does not know whether it is useful!
 "Oh. yes; heard a good deal about the Irish question, and am satisfied that the English government will have to do what the Prussian govern ment did in 1906 in order to make good citizens of the people.
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